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Dance Moms Season 5 premieres with two-hour event

December 29, 2014 Lori Acken

Could it be the revenge of Kelly and Christi is finally upon us? In the preview clip for the Jan. 6 season 5 premiere of Lifetime’s once-mighty Dance Moms, just four of the series’ original dancers — Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler, Nia Frazier and Kendall Vertes — appear in the studio, and Kendall’s mom Jill forewarns of former Dance Moms Christi Lukasiak and Kelly Hyland’s plan to “destroy the ALDC.” Even the splashy graphics announce that ABBY’S EMPIRE IS FALLING APART! But first, let’s have a little Girl Talk. Part Two. Before the Season 5 premiere episode — pointedly titled “99 Problems But A […]

ABC presents “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” Dec. 29

December 27, 2014 Lori Acken

To get you primed to ring in 2015, ABC will present two animated New Year’s favorites (and a bonus Charlie Brown special) back-to-back on Dec. 29. First in the lineup is the 1986 Peanuts special Happy New Year, Charlie Brown in which our intrepid, yellow-shirted hero wonders if he should forgo the gang’s New Year’s Eve festivities to finish Tolstoy’s War and Peace before school resumes. Toting the tome with him from Lucy’s pre-party dance class to Marcie’s and Peppermint Patty’s New Year’s Eve bash in hopes of combining business and pleasure, Charlie finds himself distracted by dreams of welcoming […]

Disney’s Christmas Day Celebration gets “Frozen”

December 25, 2014 Kellie Freeze

If the big guy in red doesn’t fulfill all of your holiday wishes, turn on ABC to get a blustery treat as Disney’s annual Christmas parade and special gets a Frozen makeover. This year’s 31st annual Christmas Day special has been renamed the Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration in a nod to last year’s movie smash. Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts hosts the celebration from Walt Disney World in Florida with musical performances from Train, Ariana Grande, Lucy Hale, Trisha Yearwood and more. GMA Contributor and ESPN football analyst Tim Tebow will also report from Florida. Meteorologist Rob Marciano will […]

Channel your inner von Trapp with tonight’s The Sound of Music Sing Along on ABC

December 21, 2014 Lori Acken

If you think you know every last word to every single song in the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein family classic The Sound of Music, here’s your chance to test that theory. Or maybe your renditions go something like “Edelweiss, edelweiss, la la lala la laaaaaaaa laaaaaaa!” and you’d like to remedy that. Tonight ABC presents The Sound of Music: Sing-A-Long, a special edition of the beloved film featuring subtitles to its Grammy-nominated soundtrack that allow you to channel your inner Fräulein Maria or Captain von Trapp with confidence. First broadcast on television on ABC in 1976, the five-time Oscar winner […]

HBO’s “Saving My Tomorrow” special is an insightful, impactful family treat

December 15, 2014 Lori Acken

If you ever need to have yourself a stern lecture about a very important subject, let me suggest that you get it from 8-year-old Hippocrates Polemis, one of the young stars of HBO’s spectacular, song-filled family special Saving My Tomorrow which premieres tonight. Like his ancient namesake, the dark-eyed little fellow has a fine grasp on what is — and isn’t — good for us. Sporting a “ICARE For The World” t-shirt and a smudge of lunch on his face, Hippocrates reminds us — with all the gravitas of your high-school principal — that we can’t just travel through galaxies […]

New Kate Plus 8 specials begin in January

December 11, 2014 Lori Acken

TLC has announced that it will air five new Kate Plus Eight specials on Tuesdays beginning Jan. 13 at 9/8CT. Featuring Kate Gosselin (a sudden dead ringer for Kendra Wilkinson who will also be seen on next month’s new season of The Celebrity Apprentice) and her kids, the hour-long specials will spotlight such hallmark family moments as a family vacation, much-needed home renovations, twins Mady and Cara’s 14th birthday and — with eight kids all in double digits —single mom Kate finding brand new ways to be completely overwhelmed. In the first two hours, Kate takes the twins and their […]

My Little Pony Special: A Very Minty Christmas

December 5, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Attention, Bronies and wishful residents of Ponyville, your favorite equines have a new ponyventure in time for Christmas! My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas premieres December 13 at 7pmET on Discovery Family. Make sure to set your DVR too: after you watch it once, you and your loved ones will clamor to watch it again and again. The hour-long family adventure features two new songs that will make you forget all existence of a certain Disney princess with a panache for spewing ice from her frigid fingers — this winter, it’s going to be all about the ponies. Since […]

Pixar And ABC Team Up For “Toy Story That Time Forgot.”

December 1, 2014 Kellie Freeze

America’s favorite playthings are back in a new animated adventure, Toy Story That Time Forgot. In the new ABC special, a post-Christmas playdate takes an unexpected turn when the season’s hottest action figures turn out to be dangerously delusional. Many actors in the Toy Story franchise — like Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack and Wallace Shawn — reprise their famous roles in the 30-minute special. This time, Trixie the triceratops, voiced by Kristen Schaal, takes center stage as she leads the effort to get the lost toys back to Bonnie’s room. “It was delightful to get to spend more […]

“Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street” is a Delight

November 20, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Amazon Studios is doing it right. Their newest series for kids, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street is available to download starting November 21, which means kids will have something fresh to watch in time for holiday traveling. Whenever I get a kid’s show to preview, I sit down to watch with my two junior reviewers — my boys ages 7 and 5. They are my willing assistants who are thrilled to watch something before it’s available to their friends. After watching a few episodes of Gortimer Gibbon together, (and relishing in their reactions which ranged from peeking out from […]

FOX’s Greatest TV Moment This Year, and Why All Gordon Ramsay TV Shows Should Have Kids.

November 13, 2014 Kellie Freeze

Can all reincarnations of FOX shows with Gordon Ramsay be revamped to include kids? That’s what I’m wondering … We’re 2 weeks into the second season of MasterChef: Junior Edition and I’m already clamoring for kid-testants to be mandatory on all future Gordon Ramsay shows. Here are my reasons why (In no particular order) 1) Gordon Ramsay is nicer. On his other shows, Gordon Ramsay is a screaming Scotsman. He seems to relish when the contestants on Hell’s Kitchen mess up so he can morph into the Tryant of Taste. If he treats his actual employees like that, does it […]